KSC-99PP-0644 - STS-96 crew at Skid Strip to return to Houston
STS-96 Commander Kent V. Rominger, holding his daughter, Kristen,
exits the bus at the Cape Canaveral Air Station Skid Strip before
boarding a plane for a return to the Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Texas. Other crew members also returning are Pilot Rick D. Husband,
and Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa (Ph.D.), Tamara E. Jernigan
(Ph.D.), Daniel Barry (M.D., Ph.D.), Julie Payette, with the Canadian
Space Agency, and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, with the Russian Space
Agency. After a successful 10-day mission to the International Space
Station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, the STS-96 crew landed June 6
at 2:02:43 a.m. EDT, in the 11th night landing at KSC.
06/7/1999